"Dreaming Reality"

Rodger Kamenetz is the author of 15 books of poetry and prose including The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night's Dream. He won the National Jewish Book Award for Stalking Elijah. His most recent book of poetry is The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 (Ben Yehuda Press). He leads a group of a dozen practitioners worldwide of Natural Dreamwork, www.thenaturaldream.com. Visit him at kamenetz.com

Dear Ones,

As winter begins and we start recoiling into sleep, dreams, and visions, the moon of Kislev guides us. This finds me returning to New York after a month in Colombia with the “Defend the Sacred” global alliance of sacred activists.

Deeply impressed by the wonderful and courageous “Comunidad de Paz in Antioquia

and the ancestral wisdom of the Arhuacos and Kogis at the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta at the “Heart of the World”.

I come back to daily life in nyc, caring for my mom, and for my new baby - my first book of prose.

“On the Verge of the Verb” An autobiographical Fiction of prophetic sorts is out for pre-order sales: https://a.co/d/dePgcra - A utopian adventure of what a more beautiful world could be like, one of collective healing, a systemic shift, wholistic peace, and a culture of generosity, cooperation even in Jerusalem.

In these perilous times, we mostly are bombarded with bad news of wars, systemic violence, greed, natural and humanmade disasters, climate catastrophes, dystopian films, and doom-filled visions of our future.

“On the Verge of the Verb” is a sort of manual for creating a kindred intergenerational and polycultural community, and creative non-violent action rooted in Spirit.

In this moon of dreaming, slowing down is one of its lessons. I learned the hard way yesterday, upon my return to NYC and my computer, trying to promote my book and losing my access to WhatsApp, because of sending too many links of my preorder sales. Hopefully, I will be able to retrieve it and if not, will have to get a new phone number and start again. This is my second time losing my voice to Meta Corporation. I’m also not allowed to send my substack link either through IG or FB according to what they told me - with my appeal to no avail - it goes against their community rules( If there’s anyone reading this who can help, please send me a private message).

Anyway, already dreaming of a new idea for my next creative prose project. It only needs the right conditions, fertile soil, sun, water, and exquisite timing for the seed to start sprouting.